AMD Athlon Gold 7220U vs Intel Core i9-9980HK

Comparative analysis of AMD Athlon Gold 7220U and Intel Core i9-9980HK processors for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Performance, Memory, Compatibility, Peripherals, Graphics, Graphics interfaces, Graphics image quality, Graphics API support, Security & Reliability, Advanced Technologies, Virtualization. Benchmark processor performance analysis: PassMark - Single thread mark, PassMark - CPU mark, Geekbench 4 - Single Core, Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core, 3DMark Fire Strike - Physics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Athlon Gold 7220U

  • CPU is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running processor: 6 nm vs 14 nm
  • 3x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 45 Watt
Launch date 20 Sep 2022 vs 23 April 2019
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm vs 14 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 45 Watt

Reasons to consider the Intel Core i9-9980HK

  • Processor is unlocked, an unlocked multiplier allows for easier overclocking
  • 6 more cores, run more applications at once: 8 vs 2
  • 12 more threads: 16 vs 4
  • Around 35% higher clock speed: 5.00 GHz vs 3.7 GHz
  • Around 5% higher maximum core temperature: 100 °C vs 95°C
  • 4x more L1 cache, more data can be stored in the L1 cache for quick access later
  • 2x more L2 cache, more data can be stored in the L2 cache for quick access later
  • 4194304x more L3 cache, more data can be stored in the L3 cache for quick access later
  • Around 21% better performance in PassMark - Single thread mark: 2528 vs 2094
  • 3x better performance in PassMark - CPU mark: 14110 vs 4740
Specifications (specs)
Unlocked Unlocked vs Locked
Number of cores 8 vs 2
Number of threads 16 vs 4
Maximum frequency 5.00 GHz vs 3.7 GHz
Maximum core temperature 100 °C vs 95°C
L1 cache 512 KB vs 64K (per core)
L2 cache 2 MB vs 512K (per core)
L3 cache 16 MB vs 4MB (shared)
Benchmarks
PassMark - Single thread mark 2528 vs 2094
PassMark - CPU mark 14110 vs 4740

Compare benchmarks

CPU 1: AMD Athlon Gold 7220U
CPU 2: Intel Core i9-9980HK

PassMark - Single thread mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
2094
2528
PassMark - CPU mark
CPU 1
CPU 2
4740
14110
Name AMD Athlon Gold 7220U Intel Core i9-9980HK
PassMark - Single thread mark 2094 2528
PassMark - CPU mark 4740 14110
Geekbench 4 - Single Core 1168
Geekbench 4 - Multi-Core 6753
3DMark Fire Strike - Physics Score 8280

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Athlon Gold 7220U Intel Core i9-9980HK

Essentials

Architecture codename Mendocino Coffee Lake
Launch date 20 Sep 2022 23 April 2019
Place in performance rating 1210 1031
Family Core i9
Launch price (MSRP) $583
Processor Number i9-9980HK
Series i9-9000
Vertical segment Mobile

Performance

Base frequency 2.4 GHz 2.40 GHz
Die size 100 mm²
L1 cache 64K (per core) 512 KB
L2 cache 512K (per core) 2 MB
L3 cache 4MB (shared) 16 MB
Manufacturing process technology 6 nm 14 nm
Maximum core temperature 95°C 100 °C
Maximum frequency 3.7 GHz 5.00 GHz
Number of cores 2 8
Number of threads 4 16
Unlocked
64 bit support
Bus Speed 8 GT/s DMI

Memory

ECC memory support
Supported memory types DDR5, Dual-channel DDR4-2666, LPDDR3-2133
Max memory channels 2
Maximum memory bandwidth 41.8 GB/s
Maximum memory size 128 GB

Compatibility

Max number of CPUs in a configuration 1 1
Sockets supported FP6
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 45 Watt
Socket Count FCBGA1440

Peripherals

PCIe configurations Gen 3, 4 Lanes, (CPU only) 1x16, 2x8, 1x8+2x4
Max number of PCIe lanes 16
PCI Express revision 3.0

Graphics

Device ID 0x3E9B
Graphics base frequency 350 MHz
Graphics max dynamic frequency 1.25 GHz
Intel® Clear Video HD technology
Intel® Clear Video technology
Intel® InTru™ 3D technology
Intel® Quick Sync Video
Max video memory 64 GB
Processor graphics Intel UHD Graphics 630

Graphics interfaces

DisplayPort
DVI
eDP
HDMI
Number of displays supported 3

Graphics image quality

4K resolution support
Max resolution over DisplayPort 4096x2304@60Hz
Max resolution over eDP 4096x2304@60Hz
Max resolution over HDMI 1.4 4096x2304@30Hz

Graphics API support

DirectX 12
OpenGL 4.5

Security & Reliability

Execute Disable Bit (EDB)
Intel® Identity Protection technology
Intel® Memory Protection Extensions (Intel® MPX)
Intel® OS Guard
Intel® Secure Key technology
Intel® Software Guard Extensions (Intel® SGX)
Intel® Trusted Execution technology (TXT)

Advanced Technologies

Enhanced Intel SpeedStep® technology
Idle States
Instruction set extensions Intel SSE4.1, Intel SSE4.2, Intel AVX2
Intel 64
Intel® Advanced Vector Extensions 2 (AVX2)
Intel® AES New Instructions
Intel® Flex Memory Access
Intel® Hyper-Threading technology
Intel® My WiFi technology
Intel® Optane™ Memory Supported
Intel® Stable Image Platform Program (SIPP)
Intel® Thermal Velocity Boost
Intel® TSX-NI
Intel® Turbo Boost technology
Intel® vPro™ Platform Eligibility
Speed Shift technology
Thermal Monitoring

Virtualization

Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x)
Intel® Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O (VT-d)
Intel® VT-x with Extended Page Tables (EPT)